Lantern Forge is a sandbox survival game with building, crafting, and RPG elements. It features an isometric view with hack 'n slash combat. Players can mine and forage for resources to build a home, plant crops, and craft weapons and armor. Then you can venture out to explore the wilderness, find hidden dungeons and temples, fight unique monsters, and collect the treasures they guard. Featuring a massive procedurally generated world, plant growth, and day/night cycles. Choose from 5 skill trees to gain special combat and crafting abilities. Hundreds of resource types and recipes for weapons, armor, tools, food, and home furnishings.

Post news Report RSS Developer's Update - April 10

Progress has been made on all fronts. New monsters added, new icons, new NPCs, new music and sound effects. Pathfinding got some updates as well as world generation and system performance.

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We've made a lot of progress in all areas in the past couple of months, so I thought it was time to post about some of what we've been working on.

Music

In the music department, our artist (Identity4) has posted the first 17 finished songs! It's shaping up to be a very impressive soundtrack. We've also added lots of combat and ambient sound effects.

Interface

Our icon designer has finished up the food icons, which you can see some of in this inventory screenshot. This brings her total of craftable food items to over 50! She's moving on to player skills.

Screenshots of farm animals, merchant interface

Creatures

The 3D animator has finished up a selection of farm animals, such as cows, rabbits, sheep, and chickens. He's also completed a few new monsters, like giant spiders, and the first of the NPC villagers, including a traveling merchant, a farmer, a blacksmith, a weapon maker, and an armorer.

More Screenshots Screenshots of farm animals, merchant interface

Programming

On the programming front, pathfinding has been updated, and we've been hard at work optimizing the graphical systems for lower memory usage and better machine performance. Also terrain generation has gotten some attention, so that all the biomes in the world are created when a game is started.

Other additions include combat skill animations, and particle effects!

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